The Venice Beach Boardwalk is known for tourists for its fun and unique activities. It sits along the Pacific Ocean and its shore is lined up with extraordinary performers and shows from break-dancers to broken glass walkers; mimes and musicians, jugglers and jesters; fortune tellers, tattoo artists or rice artists.

But on August 4, 2013, at about 6pm the Venice Beach Boardwalk, a mad driver in a speeding car ran pass the pedestrian, vendors and performers at the place. A new bride from Italy named Alice Gruppioni, who was in her honeymoon, was killed while 11 other victims were in severe conditions.

Kiwi tourist Stefan Dujakovic said that the car crash was chaotic.

"I heard all of the commotion and screams," he told Los Angeles TV station NBC 4.

Other witnesses said that the mad man drove his car over barriers to enter the boardwalk and that he was obviously aiming to hit the people in the place.

In a report from 9 news, Ms Gruppioni was given immediate medical aid at a nearby hospital but she died from her severe injuries. Her husband, architect Christian Casadei, was by her side. The couple had just been married on July 20, 2013.

Many witnesses testify that the driver of the car was furiously out for blood.

"I was half a mile from the scene, but you could see just this mass of people trying to get out of the way. I was somenody flying up in the air. When I came upon the scene, there were a bunch of people on the ground, bloodied," witness Daniel Regidor told Los Angeles Times.

The police said that the mad driver left the crime scene immediately but later turned himself in for questioning at Santa Monica police station. Up until now, the police have not figured out the motive for the crime.

A report from CCN said that the mad driver was identified by the police as Nathan Campbell, 38, and was now being held on $1 million bond.

"There no indication that he knew anybody that he hit. It looks like this guy wanted to run over a bunch of people. One guy bent on doing evil," LAPD Cmdr. Andy Smith said.

"There were people flying, laying on the grpound, tents flying everywhere. If he wanted to kill people, he came on a perfect time, 5pm on a Saturday in the summer in Venice Beach," Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey told CNN.

"This guy had an intent to create mayhem and massacre a lot of people," witness Dave Blackburn told CNN affiliate KCAL.

"The boardwalk was packed with people, and he sped up and purposefully - it looked like purposefully - was just swerving back and forth to run over as many people as he could," witness Laura Blackburn said.